1. Introduction A great variety of flows with importance to practical engineering applications are inherently unsteady and virtually all of the Newtonian fluid flows in nature are turbulent. Therefore, it is natural and unavoidable to deal with unsteady turbulent flows when Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) techniques are applied to engineering design and industrial use. CFD for general fluid ...

The paper discusses an application of the Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) method to support the development and validation of a computationally-affordable method named Effective Convectivity Model (ECM) for simulation of turbulent natural convection heat transfer and phase changes in a decay-heated corium pool in the Boiling Water Reactor (BWR) lower head. The CFD method simulations enable d...

This paper presents and analyses results from experimental and CFD work undertaken on a 24 kW domestic natural-draught gas fired boiler. The effect of chimney height on boiler flue gases is being considered to address the need for increasing concern over environmental safety as well as saving of energy. A multi-component analysis computer (DELTA 2000 CD) is used to analyze the flue gases. 3D nu...

Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations are aimed to reconstruct the reality of fluid motion and behaviour as accurately as possible, to better understand the natural phenomena under specified conditions. Ideally, computational models would need to cover different scales and geometric configurations, and the classic CFD solvers most often require long computational times to satisfy the c...

This paper presents CFD simulations of natural displacement ventilation airflows in which the buoyancy force produced by a heat source is opposed by a wind force. Cases investigated focus on windbuoyancy force relationships for which a two-layer stratification is maintained. CFD predictions of the position of the interface separating the two layers and the change in reduced gravity (temperature...

in this paper, a structural damage identification method (sdim) is developed for plate-like structures. this method is derived using dynamic equation of undamaged/damaged plate, in which local change in flexural rigidity is characterized utilizing a damage distribution function. the sdim requires to modal data in the intact state and frequency response of damage state where most of vibration ba...

Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) has become a useful tool for the study of indoor and outdoor environment problems. Recently, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has developed several Reynolds Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) equation models and Large Eddy Simulation (LES) models to enhance the capabilities of CFD for use in indoor and outdoor environment design. The new models have ...

Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) is increasingly used to study a wide variety of complex Environmental Fluid Mechanics (EFM) processes, such as water flow and turbulent mixing of contaminants in rivers and estuaries and wind flow and air pollution dispersion in urban areas. However, the accuracy and reliability of CFD modeling and the correct use of CFD results can easily be compromised. In 2...

In the past 50 years, Computational Wind Engineering (CWE) has undergone a successful transition from an emerging field into an increasingly established field in wind engineering research, practice and education. This paper provides a perspective on the past, present and future of CWE. It addresses three key illustrations of the success of CWE: (1) the establishment of CWE as an individual rese...

Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is widely used by the scientific computing community to solve various fluid flow problems. High performance computing (HPC) enable faster CFD simulations with higher solution accuracies. Many CFD applications are run on multicore and multiprocessor platforms and are being increasingly ported to run on computational accelerators such as graphical processing uni...